Reply to Religious relatives won't leave my kids alone - it's getting hard to be calm about it

Forum Index » Religion

Reply to "Religious relatives won't leave my kids alone - it's getting hard to be calm about it"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you might also need to consider the possibility that one or both of your kids might be longing for a more tangible form of spirituality than they've been exposed to up to now.
If it were me, I'd be less concerned about Christianity than the particular "brand" of it that your relatives are espousing.
You can be a Christian and not be homophobic or deny climate change. Perhaps you need to start more directly engaging your children on these topics. Also, you could offer to take your children to a more liberal/progressive attitude.
Right now, your children are only be offered two choices: your agnostic choice and the relatives conservative "Christianity" (yes I put that in quotes because I don't think that brand of Christianity is in reality "what Jesus would do".
You need to offer them more exposure to more options.[/quote]

The stance could be non-religious, right?  or are you saying parents must choose some religion for the kids sake?

I agree with this.  I think parents are obliged to center their home on some sort of stance, or the kids get confused when their friends go through confirmations, bar mitzvahs, etc.  I told my husband I didn't care when we got married but that when we had children we had to select something we were both comfortable with and go with it.  There's a lot to choose from out there - start searching.  Our kids are very much a part of our church and its huge youth program.  Try Unitarians.  You must have some relatives in your background that were "something".[/quote][/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics